Documentary Film Selection 2026
This is the first batch of selected documentary films for the 38th European Film Awards (17 January 2026). Further films will be added.
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AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE
TARDES DE SOLEDAD
Spain, France
Documentary
AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE is a documentary about bullfighting based on the portrait of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey and his cuadrilla.
Written & directed by: Albert Serra
Produced by: Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Pedro Palacios, Luís Ferrón, Ricard ... -
FIUME O MORTE!
Croatia, Slovenia, Italy
Documentary
On 12 September 1919, a troop of some three hundred soldiers under the leadership of the flamboyant war loving Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio swooped into the Northern-Adriatic port town of Fiume, now Rijeka, wanting to annex the city to Italy. Over the co...
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LISTEN TO THE VOICES
KOUTÉ VWA
Belgium, France
Documentary
Melrick, a 13-year-old boy, spends his summer vacation in Cayenne with his grandmother Nicole. His desire to learn to play the drum brings back the spectre of Lucas, Nicole's son, also a drummer, who died in tragic conditions 11 years earlier.
Directed b...
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RIEFENSTAHL
Germany
Documentary
Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women of the 20th century. Her iconographic imagery of TRIUMPH OF THE WILL and OLYMPIA stands for perfectly staged body worship, for the celebration of the superior and victorious. The aesthetics of their images se...